Designed to allow users playback centrally-stored media based on different criteria, including scheduled, on demand, live video feeds, and event based.
What is an PLAYOUT station?
The PLAYOUT component is designed for any client who needs to play content in an automated environment, including anyone from TV stations, schools and universities, libraries, hotels (pay-per-view), retail stores, kiosks, and webcasters to name a few. For some examples, perhaps a high school needs to play pre-recorded broadcasts every morning to all classrooms at a fixed time, whereas hotels could use the on demand features to charge for movies stored in MPEG-2 on a server that is then delivered to the rooms when chosen. The classic example is a small local TV station that needs to broadcast content. Playout servers are used after the content has been recorded and/or edited, and needs to be aired or played out to a television. Playout servers are usually stored in a separate area to eliminate noise. They are almost never used with any other purpose or intent other than storing and playing back content.
Specifications: (May vary depending on your specific request)
- Totally unlimited playlist editing during playback
- Advanced time-based scheduling with automated gap and overlap resolving
- Output video scaling for picture-in-picture and info channel look with live video and graphics (optional)
- MPEG-2 at different resolutions, profiles and bitrates can coexist in the same playlist, together with streams coming live
- Integrated MPEG-2, HDV and DV stream remultiplexing engines
- Content trimming and editing
- Live MPEG-2 streaming sources supported
- Synchronized fill and key playout
- Fixed-time event and Auto-fill options
- High reliability and seamless playlist playback
- Array of matrix switcher support
Features: (May vary depending on your specific request)
- Wide range of format support including AVI, QuickTime, and MPEG
- Multi-channel and Multi language playback
- Seamless cuts with no glitches even when using live streams
- Capable of SD, HDV, and HD playback
- Automatic resolve of accidental time gaps or overlapping in scheduling
- Unlimited playlist editing, even during playback
- Playback of clips still being captured
- Syncronized key and fill playout
- VTR control for tape based playout
- Database content management
- Control multiple servers remotely
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